by Vincent Wong | Mar 14, 2017
Lesung Batu (Mortar and Pestle) by Natasya Ismail Tok, tok, tok a thumb of tumeric splintered into gnarly marmalade bits a wedge of shallot flattened into sibilant mash moisture slowly dribbles down your chin, creating three puddles on your kaftan pants ...
by Vincent Wong | Jan 18, 2017
Jackfruit/Nangka Busuk by Arista Kritaya Kwek Li Boon Two black amber plums each heavy with a fry muscadine grape both swollen with their juices now only tannic without the readiness of pink oyster lips Perfectly watermelon-veined It swelled and it...
by Vincent Wong | Jan 18, 2017
The Moving Malabar by Angie Pay Jie Hui The family car hasn’t always been a staple in the family. My father had bought it only when I was in primary school, for ease of business relations. He had a poultry supply business with a partner and needed to meet...
by Vincent Wong | Oct 13, 2016
Author’s Process Note: Domestic Violet was loosely inspired by my own dating experiences… I wanted to express the frustrations of phone/tech etiquette while dating. When I was writing the script, I had lots of ideas I wanted in the film, but the end...
by Vincent Wong | Oct 13, 2016
Spooning by Miranda Yeo Spoons fit perfectly; that’s why it’s called spooning, he said His words danced along my earlobe and I laughed their tickling away as we tangled in soft sheets and cradled in morning light I burrowed into the c-shape of his body...
